Meet the only Democrat grateful for Weinergate

posted at 8:48 am on June 10, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

The DNC should send a thank-you card to Anthony Weiner. If the Representative from New York hadn’t had his fortnight of self-immolation over sending out lewd and obscene pictures and dialogue to strange women over the Internet, the press may have taken a much closer look at their new DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Tim Kaine’s successor has had her own credibility meltdown over the last few weeks, and with the smoke clearing a bit from Weinergate, Politico’s Molly Ball notices it:

In the four weeks since she succeeded Tim Kaine, Wasserman Schultz has been called out by four nonpartisan fact-checkers for mischaracterizing the GOP’s Medicare plan.

She’s accused Republicans of wanting to reinstate segregation and of waging a “war on women.” She has asserted, somewhat nonsensically, that the GOP wants to make illegal immigration — by definition against the law — “a crime.” She’s also been mocked for driving a foreign car after pounding Republicans for not supporting the American auto industry.

A rank-and-file member of Congress typically wouldn’t get noticed for inflammatory language and rhetorical slip-ups. But Wasserman Schultz has a higher profile now — and was hired precisely because of her skills as a communicator.

If that sounds familiar to Republicans, Ball draws the comparison for everyone else:

No one seems ready to declare her the Democratic version of Michael Steele, the gaffe-prone former Republican National Committee chairman whose rhetorical and administrative missteps led numerous party leaders to publicly insist he had to go. But some Democrats are already privately fretting about the media-loving Wasserman Schultz’s tendency to put her foot in her mouth — after all, her ability to be the party’s frontwoman and messenger was a major reason President Barack Obama selected her as chairwoman.

So far, the White House is defending its choice of Wasserman-Schultz in the role. Ed Rendell defends Wasserman-Schultz by claiming that her gaffes have been “minor.” After four weeks on the job, though, Wasserman-Schultz is averaging at least one laugher a week, providing the RNC with plenty of clippable — and damning — video. They may start a job-creation boom on DWS Watch. Literally, as DWS herself might say.

Ball also notes the hypocrisy of Wasserman-Schultz’s fire-breathing rhetoric as a newly-minted party leader:

Wasserman Schultz’s sharpest rhetoric — such as insisting that Republicans’ move to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict abortion constitutes a “war on women” or that the Ryan plan would be a “death trap for some seniors” — may please her party’s base. But it doesn’t square with her role as a leading voice decrying that kind of over-the-top language in the wake of the January shooting in Tucson that injured her good friend, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

“Maybe we can all come together and push the shock jocks and the media, who pride themselves in whipping people into a frenzy on both sides, not to do that anymore,” she said.

Hmmm. Maybe we can get the DNC chair to stop telling people that Republicans literally want to bring back Jim Crow laws and kill seniors. Whipping people into a frenzy is apparently only a public-sector prerogative in Debbie Downer’s world.

“But Wasserman Schultz has a higher profile now — and was hired precisely because of her skills as a communicator.”

More like a fabricator. Wasserman Schultz’s skills reminds me of Tom Daschle who used to get tons of liberal media time spreading nothing but unchallenged lies about the how the Republican Congress were starving the poor in the classic class warfare Democrats love to play. The only tool missing, (so far), in Wasserman Schultz’s repertoire is a “yeeee haw”.

I hate to disagree with you Ed. But I know at least one other Democrat that is happy for Weiner’s scandal: John Edwards. His indictment has been relegated to the back pages (if in the newspaper at all). Late night comedians don’t have time to do Edwards jokes with the treasure trove that is Weiner.
So make that two(2) democrats that are celebrating Weiner’s weiner.

Of course she’s grateful. The entire Democratic party is breathing a huge sigh of relief over Weinergate. The more this story dominates the headlines, the less focus there is on their destruction of the American economy.

In fact I would not be the least bit surprised to find out that some Democratic party operative leaked the story to Breitbart.

If we don’t back off, she will be replaced, and the next one almost has to be better for the DNC. I suggest we bide our time, let her do her thing, and just keep assembling clips of her gaffes and outrages for ads in the 2012 campaign. Don’t mess up a good thing!

DWS was hired for her ability to stay on message. She is one of the best at parroting talking points, even when they don’t exactly match up with the question being asked. She has always been almost a Random Talking-Point Generator.

Her problem now is she thinks her new title means she’s smart and can start paraphrasing the talking points and ad libbing. She’s not, and she can’t without screwing the pooch. But – SSSSSSSSH! Let’s keep that our little secret, mmmkay?

Her problem now is she thinks her new title means she’s smart and can start paraphrasing the talking points and ad libbing

Typical liberal socialist. They have all the anwers if the fact and reality will just get out of the way.

I am sure that Obama sees her as highly intelligent since that is the way he sees himself, and claims to have an IQ of 117 to prove it. Did anyone mention that 116 is average? Funny being a narcissist politician that it just happened to bump up that one point. With average intelligence or even his boarderline claim, it is not how smart you are that counts but how much common sense you have to work with that makes the difference. One thing we know, he is on the short bus for common sense and integrity.

Another clue is that highly intelligent people, those on the high end of highly intelligent and up, don’t want people to know how smart they are and will usually play down any suggestion of being a highly intelligent, super smart or a genius. We certainly don’t tell anyone our IQ’s. The reason is simple, people shy away from those they fear are smarter than they are. In Obama’s case, he has no worries there.